Day: September 15, 2005

“Microsoft also screened a video at PDC of Gates playing the role of a programmer in a spoof based on the 2004 cult movie ‘Napoleon Dynamite’. The video showed the film’s celebrated anti-hero reporting to work as a programmer for the world’s largest software maker, according to Reuters.

“In a face-off between the two nerd icons, Jon Heder, the actor who plays Napoleon Dynamite, beats Gates in a slapping match to become the head of the software giant.

“Gates is shown recruiting Heder’s fictional character, after which they are seen together in ill-fitting brown suits on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., Reuters said.”